MATTHEW JORDAN CONNOR SYME

The young Englishman made rapid progress in his first full year on tour after graduating comfortably from the Challenge Tour. He caught the eye in 2019 with an opening 63 in the British Masters at Hillside and a T5th finish in the Dunhill Links. A very steady 2020 campaign saw him comfortably retain his card for 2021 and he looks ready to press on. “Twentieth is a good week, but now I know I can do it I want to turn those good weeks into great ones,” he said in Cyprus in November.

This Fife-born 25-year-old turned pro after the Walker Cup in 2017 and finished 12th at the Portugal Masters that year in his first European Tour start. What particularly impresses, though, is that he has now secured his card in three different ways – first through Q-school for 2018, then by winning it back on the Challenge Tour after narrowly failing to hold on to it, and now comfortably retaining it for 2021 after a string of top-tens in 2020.